rain41

Got the official "Mosquitos Patrol" stamp of approval from the boss — heading to the vault now.

@AlexKittoe Thank you, really appreciate that 🙏

@rain41 Really well articulated

What made the SHL0MS post interesting was not simply that people mistook a real Monet for AI. It was how quickly perception changed the moment the label “AI-generated” appeared. Suddenly the brushwork felt “soulless.” The atmosphere became “artificial.” People began pointing out algorithmic textures and emotional emptiness inside an actual Monet painting. Susan Sontag wrote in Against Interpretation that critics often approach art with the urge to extract meaning before truly encountering the work itself. Every image becomes allegory. Every detail becomes something to decode. Kafka was endlessly subjected to this. Some read his work as social allegory about bureaucracy and alienation. Others reduced it to psychoanalytic fears of the father. Religious readings turned his characters into symbols of divine judgment and salvation. Interpretation itself is not the problem. It can deepen understanding and reshape the past. But when interpretation overtakes experience, the artwork begins to disappear beneath explanation. That is why Sontag wrote, “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” The SHL0MS post revealed something uncomfortable. Many people were no longer looking at the painting itself. They were looking at the category surrounding it. The label determined the experience before the image even had the chance to speak. Perhaps the real problem is not AI art, but our growing inability to encounter an artwork without immediately trying to classify, decode, and intellectually dominate it. Was the painting truly worse once people believed it was AI? Or did interpretation arrive before seeing ever could? @SHL0MS @Jediwolf

@TheArtRunway appreciate the thoughtful words! 🙏

Devastatingly precise🫶🏼😍One label flip and the exact same brushwork shifts from luminous to ‘soulless algorithmic texture.’ The painting didn’t change, our gaze did. This isn’t an AI problem; it’s a seeing problem. Sontag warned us decades ago: interpretation has become intellectual domination. We’ve outsourced the erotics of art to metadata and tribal priors. Kafka would call it bureaucracy of the eye. Brilliant mirror, @rain41

@pravijn Yeah, honestly that really feels true for a lot of things.

@rain41 "Perhaps the real problem is not AI art, but our growing inability to encounter an artwork without immediately trying to classify, decode, and intellectually dominate it." this framing is actually true for a lot of ideas and has often made me lose out by not being more open

@batsoupyum Appreciate that 🙏 and thanks for the follow back too, ser!

@rain41 good take!

@lifeofc always has been 🤍🩵

I know I'm drinking my own kool-aid 😎 but I really do like how the ALWAYS HAS BEEN event token collection turned out. It's definitely easier to appreciate when looking at it as a group versus individual pieces. (Sneak peak at a future update.👀) alwayshasbeen.xyz/mint

@LindaDouniaR 2/ The next section focuses on recent releases. On a weekly (or so) basis, this section will show new, interesting releases, curated by our team. Kicking this section off with great work by @qubibien, @nicedayJules, @jeffgdavis, @devharlan, @mayaonthenet and @kerimsafa.

@jakejfried @PinstripedGator 👁👁

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

@tinoch @m0dest___ huge congrats !! 🤍🩷

" the monkey miners " by @m0dest___ is my favourite collection from the artist and today I'm thrilled to add "monkeys22" to the vault! "there are only 99 monkeys. and they are chimps. but who's counting" — m0dest

@WAPSHOP_ETH @lineofakc congrats love this ! 💞

Happy Friday! Love waking up to auctions won, and new art in your wallet! Flowers @lineofakc

@1xharsh @BoredJosei gm 💌

🌸Epoch: 14 🌸Day: 10/10 (you did it!🫶) 🌸Edition size: 69 🌸Eligibility: Comment or QRT This one was so much fun to co-create with @BoredJosei. Thank you for the opportunity to do this brotha! 🫶 Gm🤍

Thirty days of "Artificial After All" On April 15th, the contract was deployed to Ethereum mainnet. A single transaction, and 256 child contracts waiting to be created from it. Over the following twelve hours I enjoyed creating the 64 artist prints, one by one. Each piece a self-contained system, a compressed neural network embedded into 24kb of bytecode, capable of computing its own image on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The remaining 192 contracts were then opened to everyone at 0.128 ETH each. Each creation constituted a contract calling the "Artificial After All" contract, which in turn deployed a new "Artificial" contract. The chain handled the deployment, the storage, the computation, and the ownership ledger in a single sequence. All 192 Artificials were acquired within ten hours, and I shared a clue for Artificial After All during that time. "The machine learned to see before anyone was watching. In those early moments, each creation was given an identity on the world computer. Every identity ends with a breath. Follow those breaths, from the first creation to the last before the doors opened." A private key had been distributed across the addresses of the 64 artist prints. The final hex digit of each, in order, formed the key. One day after the sale, the puzzle was solved by @gifted_0x : x.com/gifted_0x/stat… As of today, the work has accumulated its own activity. 149 wallets hold at least one piece. 105 secondary transactions have occurred. 47.37 ETH has changed hands between collectors. The highest single sale settled at 0.95 ETH. In function, these resemble NFTs. They can be owned, transferred, listed, and bought. The structural difference is what matters. Each piece is a smart contract, not a token. The owner holds the contract itself: the weights, the inference logic, the marketplace functions, the ownership ledger. All of it, in one indivisible unit. For example, this is an Artificial. You don't have to view it through the website. Any blockchain explorer works: 0x363F824eD7EAF45F9757C5C1FBe45957c2D1E844 There is no separate token pointing to external metadata. The ownership and the work are the same object. This is also why they do not appear on standard marketplaces. Each piece is its own marketplace. The chain itself is the storefront. @yougogirl_eth published a detailed technical breakdown of how the network sits inside the contract: x.com/yougogirl_eth/… These are artifacts of permissionless infrastructure. Each piece computes its image deterministically from its seed at the moment of inquiry. The website is just an interface. The work is independent of it. @InCartersEyes built a viewer that visualizes the inference happening in real time: artificialviewer.vercel.app What follows My desire is to extend the work beyond the chain through publications, prints, and other formats that can carry the underlying idea into other contexts. 16 Artificials are reserved for donation to museums and galleries. A portion of the remainder is intended for future patrons of the practice. This is an open letter to any of them. Finally, I appreciate all collectors who are interested in digging, seeing the value in it, and rooting for it. The art is not stored. It is computed. The market is not hosted. It is encoded. The permanence is not promised. It is enforced. artificial.han.io

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@Crevil0 @degenpain @5tr4n0 🤍🩷

yesterday i noticed @degenpain placed an offer on broken by @5tr4n0 - a collection i own 3 pieces from and genuinely love since the moment i saw them since i can hardly imagine a better holder for one of my favorite collections i reached out and told him i would happily accept the offer if he could possibly add any piece of his to the offer, just to make the idea of letting one broken go a little easier he immediately told me to pick any work from his latest collection artificial pain... the choice was instant: “purple calling” such a beautiful gesture from one of the kindest and most genuine people i have met in this space welcome to broken, degenpain and thank you again 💜

@happylolohappy0 💚

SECTOR_05 // VERTICAL_SWEEP Archive System Artifact.

@Jediwolf @SHL0MS huge congrats!

We learned a lot in the last 24h - not just about art or AI but about ourselves - and I’m struggling to think of anything more valuable. Thank you again @SHL0MS "inferior image" is now part of my UnderTheGAN early AI art collection.